1. On the Brazilian eletronic voting system
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...ntaining such material over ther years - and upgrading it constantly - would cost a lot of money for an event that occurs only once in a couple of years... But hey, if the Brazilians made that, why ot...

2. Digital Marketing and the Public Interest
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...In theory what it entails is knowing not just that a consumer is interested in shopping for a car, or even that their tastes seem to run in the direction of auto type A versus auto type B, but the ...

3. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...rd electoral system bequeathed by Silvio Berlusconi shortly before the 2006 election and designed to prevent a clear majority from emerging. It is arguable that the most likely outcome of this or a...

4. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...gia, when peaceful street protests against falsified parliamentary elections sparked in November 2003 eventually forced out the incumbent president, Eduard Shevardnadze, created optimism that the c...

5. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...rgest corporations in the country, such as Gazprom, Rosneft, and Transneft. You might wonder if Russian even has a term for “conflict of interest.” First, Putin’s bunch took justice ...

6. Political Power in Africa
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...ce the independence era, albeit sometimes only intermittently and with varying degrees of contestation. Even so, both the total number of elections held per decade and the share of elections that are ...

7. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...move into the Partly Free category as well. Since then, China has remained deep in Not Free territory even though its civil-liberties score has improved a bit—from an absolutely abysmal 7 to ...

8. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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Lands have been confiscated, foreign companies driven out and utilities renationalised, but even so there is a special place in Venezuela for Louis Vuitton. The immaculate store in the Sambil shopping